COPENHAGEN: The "joint reaction" of 14 European Union governments against their partner – Austria – threatens to weaken the Union at the moment when it faces its greatest challenge: opening its membership to the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. For the political boycott implemented by the 14 against Austria undermines the Treaty on European Union, and raises serious doubts about the functioning of EU-institutions. If the present deadlock is not broken soon, serious damage will be done to European integration.
COPENHAGEN: The "joint reaction" of 14 European Union governments against their partner – Austria – threatens to weaken the Union at the moment when it faces its greatest challenge: opening its membership to the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. For the political boycott implemented by the 14 against Austria undermines the Treaty on European Union, and raises serious doubts about the functioning of EU-institutions. If the present deadlock is not broken soon, serious damage will be done to European integration.